Chili powder + Mustard seed
Chili powder and mustard seed are substitute candidates — they share aroma chemistry (chem 0.50) but rarely appear in the same dish. One could stand in for the other in many recipes. Both sit inside the "South Asian savory spice and vegetable pantry" mode.
What do these scores mean?
Cooks-with (technical name: Cooc) measures how often the two ingredients appear in the same dish across 4M recipes. Tastes-like (Chem) measures how much aroma chemistry they share via FlavorDB. Blended (Core) combines both. All are cosine similarities in 300-D space — practical ranges differ per axis, so see the per-row context to read them.
Ingredients that go well with both chili powder and mustard seed — candidates for completing the dish.
How this is ranked
Each candidate scores against both ingredients in the recipe co-occurrence embedding. We sort by the worse of the two scores, so the result fits the weaker partner — not just one of them.
Clusters that contain both ingredients — click through to see everything in the mode.
- Cooks withSouth Asian savory spice and vegetable pantry
- Cooks withSavory cheeses, cured meats and legumes
- Cooks withSavory condiments and spiced sauces
- Cooks withFiber-rich herbs legumes and spices
- Cooks withPan-Asian aromatic whole spices and masalas
- Cooks withWhole grain and seed pantry staples
- BlendedLatin American and Indian spiced savory staples
- BlendedProtein-dense legumes meats and spices